New chemical probes advance search for new antibiotics
Indiana University researchers have invented technology to watch bacteria build cell walls in real timeCredit: Video courtesy of the VanNieuwenhze ...
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Detailed new primate brain atlas could lead to disease insights
Credit: CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- The ability to comprehensively map the architecture of connections between neurons in primate ...
Researchers discover clues to brain differences between males and females
New study by Dr. Margaret McCarthy's Lab shows how male sex steroids play a key role in understanding behavioral development ...
Breast milk microbiome contains yeast and fungi: Do these benefit the infant?
Washington, DC - March 1, 2019 - Investigators have now shown that the breast milk microbiome contains fungi. Multiple previous ...
Paleontology: Diversification after mass extinction
A team led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich paleontologist Adriana López-Arbarello has identified three hitherto unknown fossil fish species in ...
Two genes explain variation in color and behavior in the wall lizard
Credit: Guillem Pérez i de Lanuza How are reptiles capable of generating such a diversity of bright colors? And how ...
More humans always mean fewer African carnivores, right? Nope
Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - African carnivores face numerous threats from humans. So, it's a fair assumption ...
Embryos’ signaling proteins go with the flow
Rice University scientists say context rules dynamic mechanisms that turn cells intoCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 1, 2019) ...
Bacteria in frog skin may help fight fungal infections in humans
Credit: Christian Martin In the past few decades, a lethal disease has decimated populations of frogs and other amphibians worldwide, ...
The sneaky way estrogen drives brain metastasis in non-estrogen-dependent breast cancers
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Triple-negative breast cancers are more likely than other breast cancer types to metastasize and ...
How hair dye works (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, March 1, 2019 -- Whether you need a disguise to run from the law ...
Endangered eel located using DNA from one liter of water
Credit: Kobe University Researchers have shed light on the distribution of Japanese eel by analyzing environmental DNA (eDNA) from small ...
A clearer view of past climate from tree rings
To see where the Earth's climate is headed, we have to see where it's been -- and a new San ...
China-led research collaboration develops new way to test gene-editing safety
Chinese and international scientists have developed a new technique to evaluate the safety of genome-editing tools - a method that ...
Gene transcription machinery constrains DNA movements, study suggests
Credit: Nagashima et al., 2019 Researchers in Japan have discovered that the DNA inside human cells moves around less when ...
Towards a blood test for early-stage liver disease
- Scientists looked for early detection method for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) - Plasma proteins of NAFLD patients were ...
An abundance of beneficial mutations
Credit: ©PopGen/Vetmeduni Vienna) Not just since climate change has it been of enormous interest to understand how populations adapt to ...
Koala-spotting drones proves a flying success
Credit: QUT QUT researchers have developed an innovative method for detecting koala populations using drones and infrared imaging that is ...
Scientists rejuvenate stem cells in the aging brain of mice
Regenerative medicineCredit: University of Luxembourg Luxembourg, 28 February 2019 - Scientists from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of ...
New device mimics beating heart with tiny pieces of heart tissue
Credit: Fotios Pitoulis Researchers at Imperial College London created a bioreactor to allow heart tissue to experience mechanical forces in ...
